Thorsten Schäfer
Prof. Dr. habil.
Telephone: 03641 / 948640
Telefax: 03641 / 948622
E-Mail: thorsten.schaefer@uni-jena.de
Personal information
Birth Date and Place: 11.09.1969, Wiesbaden, Germany
Marital Status: Married, 3 children
Educational history
- 2008
- Habilitation (Priv. Doz. Dr. habil., 2008)
Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Geosciences, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Dr. A. Pekdeger
- Habilitation (Priv. Doz. Dr. habil., 2008)
- 1998
- Ph.D. in Hydrogeology (Dr. rer. nat., 1998)
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Geosciences, Germany
Advisors: Prof. Dr. D. Schenk, Prof. Dr. F. Sirocko (University of Mainz)
- Ph.D. in Hydrogeology (Dr. rer. nat., 1998)
- 1994
- Diploma in Geology (Dipl. Geol., 1994)
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Geosciences, Germany
Advisors: Prof. Dr. D. Schenk & Dr. H. Knoke, Department of Geoscience
- Diploma in Geology (Dipl. Geol., 1994)
Employment
- seit 6/2017
University Professor and Chair of Applied Geology
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (FSU) Jena, Germany
Institute of Earth Sciences - 10/2014 – 2017
Professor of Chemical Environmental Geology
Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Department of Applied Geosciences, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences - 2014 – 2017
Deputy Director
Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
of the Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal (INE) - 2009 – 2017
Deputy divisional head "Geochemistry"
Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
of the Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal (INE) - 2008 – 2009
Stellvertretender Leiter Abteilung "Geochemie"
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, INE, Germany - 2004 – 2012
Group Leader "Radionuclide Migration"
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, INE, Germany - 2002 – 2009
Group Leader "Colloid Chemistry"
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, INE, Germany - 1999 – 2000
Staff scientist
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, INE, Germany - 2000 – 2001
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Brookhaven National Laboratory (NSLS) & State University of New York, USA - 1996 – 1998
Research Associate
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
DFG priority program 546 "Geochemical processes with long-term effects in anthropogenically- affected seepage and groundwater" - 1994 – 1995
Research Associate
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
German Research Foundation (DFG) priority program 546 "Geochemical processes with long-term effects in anthropogenically-affected seepage and groundwater" - 1994
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Compilation of a hydrocarbon reservoir rock data base for the expert system FROCKI (German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology, DGMK) - 1995 – 1996
Military Service
Department of air traffic control (AFSBw)
Awards and recognitions
- 2000
Johannes Gutenberg PhD award for outstanding scientific research - 2008
Scientific Highlight of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS)
(http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/44323.pdfExternal link)
Service
International
- 2017 – present
Associated Editor for Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry, Elsevier - 2016 – present
Guest Editor for Geothermal Energy Journal, Springer - 2015 –2016
Guest Editor for Clays and Clay Minerals - 2014 – present
Associated Editor, Applied Geochemistry, Elsevie - 2010 – present
Member of the expert panel on radionuclide migration in plastic clays for the ONDRAF/NIRAS and SCK∙CEN preparation of the Safety and Feasibility Case-1 (SFC-1) - 2006 – present
Laboratory coordinator of the Grimsel Test Site (GTS) Colloid Formation & Migration (CFM) project - 2005 – present
Representative of INE in the NEA-OECD "ClayClub" focusing on the characterization, the understanding and the Performance of Argillaceous Rocks as Repository Host Formations
Proposal Review Committee (PRT) member of the PSI-SLS synchrotron facility "Hard XAS", Advanced light source (ALS, Berkeley) & Canadian Light Source (CLS) Panel on Geoscience applications
National
- 2013 – present
Principal investigator (PI); research field energy proposal for a Helmholtz research programme "Renewable Energies Topic 4: Geothermal Energy Systems" (2015-2019) - 2013 – present
Principal investigator (PI); research field energy proposal for a Helmholtz research programme "Nuclear Waste Management and Safety as well as Radiation Research Topic 1: Nuclear Waste Management" (2015-2019) - 2016 – 2017
Member "Geo/Water" of the Council for Research and Promotion of Young Scientists (CRYS) at KIT - 2014 – 2017
Deputy Topic speaker "Georesources" of the KIT Climate and Environment Center - 2012 – present
Member of the Holcim-Award - 2009 – present
Advisory committee member of the "Center of Competence for Material Moisture, CMM"